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VA-API Has New H.264, MPEG-2 Encoding

06-26-2013, 04:06 PM

Phoronix: VA-API Has New H.264, MPEG-2 Encoding

Intel released version 1.2.0 of libva and libva-intel-driver over the night. The updated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) now has support for MPEG-2 encoding along with new H.264 profile encoding API support...

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Nice Improvements overall as it seems. But since deinterlacing still seems to be mostly crap with nothing more than bob available on every architecture below Haswell my not too old Intel Hardware is still a no go for my usecases...

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Last time I checked, Handbrake was using Intel's implementation, and only on Windows. Can you link to where this was enabled for VA-API on Linux?

It isn't in Handbrake (yet). You are correct that QuickSync encoding is only being utilized on the Windows version right now (and in a beta build) and currently there is no va-api code being utilized (or OS X's equivalent).